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...Communist East Europe, commissars and cops do it. In Rome and Madrid, moppets in dancing class do it. Frenchmen perform the ritual with sinuous grace, Spaniards smackingly, Germans with a click of the heels. However widely their techniques may vary, Europeans from Barcelona to Bialystok in recent years have taken to hand kissing with fervor and frequency unmatched in their history. After World War II, the custom seemed in decline. But today, men of virtually every class and calling on the Continent dive for distaff knuckles as assiduously, if not always so expertly, as do the courtiers in a Lehar...
After retiring, Lincoln was a member of the Visiting Committee for Romance Languages and the Harvard Faculty Club. A resident of Brighton, he held life memberships in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Ateno de Madrid...
Both G.M. and Ford have been negotiating with the Spanish government, but failed to reach an agreement because of a new government regulation requiring unrealistically high auto output. Taking another tack, Townsend paid $17 million for a 35% interest in Madrid's thriving Barreiros Diesel S.A., Spain's biggest privately owned truck and enginemaker, which is not bound by the new decree. Aided by Chrysler know-how and money, President Eduardo Barreiros, 43 (TIME, April 12), will build a new plant, intends to produce 15,000 Dodge Darts the first year. Another attractive angle for Chrysler: autos made...
Built on the rise of the Guadarrama mountain range 31 miles from Madrid, El Escorial casts such a gloomy aspect that the Romantic Poet Théophile Gautier called it the "granite debauch of Spain's Tiberius." Even its floor plan reflects a grim occasion. The monastery is named in honor of a humble 3rd century deacon who was burned alive on a gridiron by his Roman torturers. San Lorenzo, it is said, calmly instructed the Romans: "This side's done. You can turn me over now." His coolness under trial won him a lasting place in Spanish...
...Fidel Castro's guests, those 58 U.S. "students" ran up against quite a problem: getting home. No nation in the Western hemisphere seemed willing to let them fly in direct from Cuba, and after a trying month of delay they were forced to take a plane to Madrid. There, at last, a few of them seemed to have second thoughts about Castroland. Clinton M. Jencks, 19, a psychology student at San Francisco State College, had his Castro-style beard shaved off and frankly declared that he was disillusioned with Cuba and that he had "had it." Later, subjected...